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In thefe two concluding Sentences, the Author,haftening to finifh , appears to write rather care-lefly. In the firft of them, a manifeft tautologyoccurs, when he fpeaks of what is “ univerfally“ acknowledged by all enquirers. ” In the fecond,when he calls “ a truth which has been incon-“ teftibly proved; ” firft , a [peculation , andafterwards, a notion , the Language furely is notvery accurate. When he adds , “ one of the fineft“ fpeculadons in that fcience,” it does not, atfirft, appear what fcience he means. One wouldimagine, he meant to refer to modern pbilofopbers ;for natu al pbtiofopby (to which, doubtlefs, herefers) Hands at much too great a diftance to bethe proper or obvious antecedent to the pronounthat. The circumftance towards the clofe, “if“ the Englifh Reader would fee the notion“ explained at large, he may find it, ” is pro-perly taken notice of by the Author of the Ele-ments of Criticifm , as wrong arranged , and isrectibed thus : “ the Englifh Reader , if he“ would fee the notion explained at large, may“ find it, &c. ”

In concluding the Examination of this Paper,we may obferye, that, though not a very long

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